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Education

For Children and Youth:
  • September - June:   Sunday School after the Divine Liturgy.
  • Year-round:   Teen SOYO after the Divine Liturgy.
  • Late Winter:   Creative Arts & Writing Workshops.
  • Summer & Winter:   Summer & Winter Camp at Antiochian Village.
  • August:   Vacation Church School.
For Adults:
  • Autumn, Winter and Spring Sessions:   Catechumens and Inquirers.
  • Paschal Lent:   Annual Lenten Retreat.
  • Throughout the Year:   Retreats & Workshops at Antiochian Village.
  • Periodically:  Adult studies on Scripture, Patristics, spiritual writings, etc.
Lecture Resources

Their Church, Our Church: Discovering the Living Heritage of Orthodoxy (pdf file)
Dr. Christopher Haas, Associate Professor of History and Classical Studies, Villanova University
Lecture delivered at St Philip’s Open House, September 18, 2010

Dormition - Meaning
(pdf file)
Iconographer Nicholas Papas, Nick Papas Studio, Greensburg, PA
Presentation delivered at St Philip's upon installation of Dormition Mural, August 13, 2011

Patristic Studies Archive

Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Council
Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Council
Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Council



Patristic Studies presented by Brian Ephrem Fitzgerald, PhD
2002-2006

(Click on the study title to access a pdf of the presentation.)





St. Polycarp of Smyrna: Bishop, Martyr, and Teacher of Apostolic Tradition
June-July 2006

Lectures:
  • St. Polycarp of Smyrna: The Man and his Epistle
  • The Epistle to the Philippians: Exhortations unto Righteousness
  • The Martyriun Sancti Polycarpi: About the Text and its Theology
  • The Martyriun Sancti Polycarpi as Hagiography

The Shepherd of Hermas
May-June 2005

Lectures:
  • General Introduction
  • Penance and Repentance
  • Ethics
  • Ecclesiology

St. Gregory of Nyssa: On the Soul and the Resurrection
May 2004

Lectures:
  • General Introduction and "The Nature of the Soul"
  • The Soul after Death
  • The Soul's Origin - The Soul's Destiny
  • Faith and Reason - St. Gregory's Theological Method

St. Basil the Great: On the Holy Spirit
November 2003

Lectures:
  • Who is St. Basil the Great and what is "On the Holy Spirit"
  • The Holy Trinity and the Divinity of the Holy Spirit
  • St. Basil's Sources and Methods in Theology

St. Athanasius the Great: The Redemptive Plan in On the Incarnation
March-April 2003

Lectures:
  • General Introduction and "The Divine Dilemma"
  • Christ the Incarnate Teacher and Redeemer
  • Christ the Word and Life Incarnate

St. Ephrem of Nisibis: God's Self-Revelation as seen in the Hymns on Paradise
November-December 2002

Lectures:
  • Biographical Introduction and "The Garment of Words"
  • God's Two Witnesses: Holy Scripture and Nature
  • Hiddenness and Revelation

St. John Chrysostom on Wealth and Virtue
March 2002

Lectures:
  • Lazarus and the Rich Man as Exemplars for our Salvation
  • The Proper Evaluation of one's Life
  • The Meaning and Use of Wealth
  • Open Discussion of the Six Homilies

And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.   
(Acts 11:26)



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